Internet Links to Arts Organizations of Interest

Internet Links to Arts Organizations of Interest

Mark Morris Dance Group:

Mark Morris Dance Group
The Mark Morris Dance Group now celebrating its 25th anniversary tours the world with new and repertory works from the leading American choreographer of our time. Their web site posts company information, touring schedule and the latest news from the company.

Rolex Arts Initiative:

Rolex Arts Initiative
Rolex created its Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative as a biennial program, established to make a significant contribution to the arts by helping to perpetuate the world’s artistic heritage. In keeping with its tradition of supporting individual excellence, the company is giving emerging artists time to learn, create and grow. For each program cycle, Rolex invites masters in the performing arts, visual arts, film and literature to provide individual guidance to gifted young artists who have not yet attracted the support their talent warrants.

Dusan Tynek Dance Theater:

Dusan Tynek Dance Theater
Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre presents an evening of world premiere works at Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), July 13 - 15 at 7:30pm; and July 16 at 2pm. Inspired by sinister 19th Century Czech ballads and set to a lush and eclectic score of strings, Košile is an epic tale with supernatural elements that examines the impact of pagan mythology on more contemporary perceptions of fate and gender. ScENes, the second premiere, is a collection of six, highly kinetic dream–like fantastical sketches set to the rich music of contemporary composer/violinist Michael Galasso. Information on their web site on this upcoming engagement as well as the company's background and other news.

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble:

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble’s work transports viewers to enchanted worlds of magic and spirituality with the sensuous flow of Odissi, the oldest of India's classical dance forms. Originally a sacred ritual, Odissi is marked by lyricism and curved bodylines that bring alive the ancient temple sculptures of India. Choreographed by Artistic Director Surupa Sen, performances feature renowned soloists Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy, the Nrityagram ensemble, with live music. Information at their web site on the dance village they have created located near Bangalore, India.

MOSAIC:

MOSAIC
MOSAIC is a quartet of instrumentalists made up of a unique core combination of flute, cello, piano and percussion -- no other chamber group presently exists with this specific makeup. In addition to concert programming, part of MOSAIC’s focus is to produce multi-disciplinary events that treat either new or already-composed music as a centerpiece and equal component to whatever artistic discipline might be involved in these distinct projects.

New York Theatre Workshop:

New York Theatre Workshop
New York Theatre Workshop is just that, a remarkable off-Broadway theatre noted for its acclaimed and innovative productions, a workshop where artists create new work, hone their craft and collaboratively explore theatre, all rooted in their cozy East Village digs located in the heart of New York's downtown arts scene. As a center of creative endeavor and artistic industry, NYTW's impact resonates far beyond the 188 seats of their theatre and the four walls of their rehearsal studio.

Arts at St. Ann's at St. Ann's Warehouse:

Arts at St. Ann's
For more than 20 years, Arts at St. Ann’s presented its vital an eclectic performing arts series at the historic St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn Heights. The organization recently relocated to the emerging Brooklyn neighborhood, DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), where the new St. Ann’s Warehouse at 38 Water has become one of New York City’s essential performance venues. Arts at St. Ann’s has forged relationships with The Wooster Group, government officials, local developers and Brooklyn Bridge Park advocates to establish a permanent home on the Brooklyn waterfront. Arts at St. Ann’s has long been recognized for inventive concert and new music/theater presentations. Through its signature multi-artist concerts, Arts at St. Ann’s celebrates the panoramic traditions of American and world cultures, with forays into a variety of contemporary forms, including new commissions and multi-disciplinary collaborations. St. Ann’s Warehouse is also the home of The Lab, Arts at St. Ann’s acclaimed professional puppet theater workshop led by Dan Hurlin and Theodora Skipitares.

P.S. 122:

P.S. 122
Performance Space 122 is a not-for-profit arts center serving the New York City dance and performance community. P.S.122 is committed to supporting the development of work by individual artists who create live art with an authentic vision. They are fully dedicated to finding, developing, and bringing to the public eye artistic creations from a diversity of cultures, points of view, ages, and sexual orientations.

Dixon Place:

Dixon Place
Dixon Place is a non-profit performance space, which features original performance art, theatre and dance works-in-progress, literary readings by emerging and established playwrights and writers of fiction, poetry and science fiction, and interesting and unusual musical acts. All the work at Dixon Place is selected and presented, and the artists are remunerated.

Dance Films Association:

Dance Films Association
The earliest film directors recognized the immediacy and emotional power of dance.The two arts, dance and film, have enjoyed a passionate, sometimes stormy marriage ever since. Today the genre of dance film/video continues to evolve as dancers collaborate with writers and producers to create fabulous narrative and experimental shorts and features, documentaries, stage adaptations, andinstructional programs. Dance Films Association, Inc. (DFA), a non-profit,tax-exempt, membership organization, supports all these efforts by promoting excellence in dance films and video and public awareness through festivals, screenings, publications, grants, and workshops. Its many partners: Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library, the Puffin Room and its many touring partners around the world help to bring its programs to a wide public.

Dance Insider:

Dance Insider
The Dance Insider's mission is to tell stories not told elsewhere, give a voice to dancers, and build the dance audience.

Mass MoCA:

Mass MoCA
MASS MoCA is the largest center for contemporary arts in the United States. The institution is dedicated to the creation and presentation of provocative visual and performing arts pieces, and of works that blur conventional distinctions between artistic disciplines. In addition, MASS MoCA functions as a laboratory for the contemporary arts, fostering experimentation by artists, encouraging collaborations among institutions, and allowing visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process.

Arts International:

Arts International
Arts International is an independent, not-for-profit contemporary arts organization dedicated to the development and support of global cultural interchange in the arts and to educating audiences and the public about the richness and diversity of the arts worldwide.

Support for the Arts:

National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts enriches our nation and its diverse cultural heritage by supporting works of artistic excellence, advancing learning in the arts, and strengthening the arts in communities throughout the country.

Creative Capital
Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing, and visual arts, and in emerging fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with financial support. Funded artists agree to share a small percentage of any profits generated by their projects with Creative Capital, which applies these funds toward new grants.

The Howard Gilman Foundation
The Howard Gilman Foundation is a private foundation based in New York City whose mission is to preserve the legacy of Howard Gilman by supporting philanthropic programs in his primary areas of interest: performing arts, wildlife conservation and cardiovascular diseases.

New York Foundation for the Arts
Enables contemporary artists to create and share their works and provides the broader public with opportunities to experience and understand the arts.

Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund
A private grantmaking foundation making grants to enhance the cultural life of communities through arts and culture, adult literacy and urban parks programs.